At the free concert the night before, Lin had performed two numbers from an upcoming album currently being developed with Ohtake and longtime collaborator Zhong Yong-feng (鍾永豐). He performed both again at Zhongshan Hall, and they proved the highlight of the concert, suggesting that working with material less intimately related to his own life freed Lin up musically, diverting some of his earnestness from a sometimes cloying sentimentality to areas of musical invention. The two days of music, if nothing else, should certainly whet the appetite for Lin’s next album.
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